The supposedly Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ended the registration of (new) voters despite the fact that there were hundreds and thousands of would-be or intending voters trooping into and milling around voter registration centres or points all over the country. We saw pictures of agitated Nigerians struggling to get registered. Many slept at the registration centres. Others got there very early in the morning and left late in the night, doing that day-in day-out; yet, they failed to get their names on the voters’ register. I experienced the INEC shenanigans at its Agege office in Lagos where prospective…

One death too many was my spur-of-the–moment reaction to the jolting news of the transition of African and Nigerian foremost Professor of Geography, Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje which heartbroken event occurred on the 4th August 2022. Mabogunje appeared to many differently. In the academic world, he was a first class brain, a renowned and erudite scholar cum towering figure. Our paths crossed than ever when he was the Pioneer Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of Olabisi Onabanjo University, where I was the President of the Development Foundation of the University. We were also together at Ogun State Elders’ Consultative Forum, where…

As stranger events tumble over strange developments and as bizarre enactments of Yahoo governance takes firm precedence over the principles of rigour and rationality on which the modern nation-state is founded, one begins to wonder whether the people of this nation-space will not be entitled to some historic compensation for the cruel joke visited upon them. Just as one was digesting the outlandish largesse by the government to General Buhari’s ancestral cousins in a foreign land, reports came that the federal authorities have characterised the ambush of the convoy of a serving Assistant Inspector Generalin which the orderly lost his…

To understand the profligacy, indiscretion and misplaced priority in the purchase of N1.14bn ($2.7m)-worth 10 luxury vehicles by the Muhammadu Buhari government for neighbouring Niger Republic, ostensibly to shore up that country’s security, at a time when there is excruciating hunger in the land and terrorists are probably a mile away from the Aso Villa seat of government, you have to go way back to the year 1972 or so, to the reply of the late President of Niger Republic, Ahmadu Diori, when asked why Niger supported Nigeria as against the secessionist Biafra in the Nigerian Civil War. According to…